Over the past decade, the craft beer industry has undergone a sea change in its packaging choices. Bottles, once seen as the only way for good beer to be sold at retail, have given way to cans as ...

Gaza fisherman battles poverty with plastic bottle boat The 700-bottle craft is capable of carrying up to eight people out to sea, according to its skipper. By Adel Zaanoun 16 August 2018, 9:30 am ...

Cameroon nonprofit Madiba & Nature, started by Essome Ismael, is turning waste plastic bottles into fishing boats. ... but it turns out the crafts are actually strong and seaworthy.

Take a small plastic bottle and clean it. Now, using a rubber band, attach two popsicle sticks to the sides of the bottle. The popsicle sticks should extend more from the plastic bottle's mouth ...

Banking heir David de Rothschild is sailing across the Pacific Ocean on 12,000 plastic bottles. ... It took a year to assemble the Plastiki’s bottles into a seaworthy craft. The boat has two ...

After spending 125 days traveling over 8,000 nautical miles, the Plastiki is preparing to reach Sydney, its final destination, on Sunday.

The Plastiki is a sailboat made almost entirely from recycled and/or recyclable plastic, getting the majority of its flotation from 12,500 two-liter plastic bottles.

Two survivors were also pulled from the rough waters and are being treated in hospital for hypothermia and other injuries.

After floating on plastic for more than 9,000 miles, the crew of the Plastiki arrived in Sydney, Australia today, more than four months after the ship set sail from San Francisco. The boat of 12,500 ...

World Gaza fisherman battles poverty with plastic bottle boat. By. AFP. Published. August 15, 2018 - ...

The Palestinian father-of-four used glue and old nets to bind the bottles into a small fishing boat that he hopes will help him support his family. Simple but effective, the 700-bottle craft is ...

With hundreds of empty plastic bottles collected from the shores of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, fisherman Muath Abu Zeid has turned litter into a floating source of income. The Palestinian ...